JOAN OF ARC (1900)

SYNOPSIS

Considered the first “super production” in the history of the cinema, the film is over ten minutes long (at a time when most films lasted for just one minute), with numerous decors and an impressive number of extras. It summarizes the life of Joan of Arc, a divinely inspired peasant woman who becomes an army captain before being captured and martyred, and is entirely coloured by hand, frame by frame.